KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas couple has filed a lawsuit in hopes of reversing federal immigration officials’ decision not to allow their adopted Korean-born daughter to become a U.S. citizen.

Army veteran Patrick Schreiber and his wife finalized their niece’s adoption in 2014 when she was 17, The Kansas City Star reported. She now studies at the University of Kansas but may soon be deported.

Schreiber said an adoption attorney informed him he had until his niece turned 18 to adopt her. But a federal statute says children brought into the country must be adopted before age 16 for access to U.S. citizenship.

“The law clearly says that if you’re 16 or older when adopted, you cannot derive citizenship from your parents,” said USCIS spokewoman Sharon Rummery. “We don’t make the law. That’s the job of Congress.”

The girl arrived legally in the U.S. with a student visa at the age of 15 after family problems in Korea prompted the Schreibers to host her in 2012. Schreiber said he and wife put their niece’s adoption on hold after the military called him to Afghanistan in 2013.

“I should have put my family ahead of the Army,” Schreiber said.

Now Schreiber is determined to keep his family together, even if it means moving back to South Korea.

“Yes, she loves the United States. But our biggest concern is staying together as a family,” Schreiber said.

The Scheibers’ attorney, Rekha Sharma-Crawford, said the immigration system “really is broken.”

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — An investigation continues into a fire that killed two people near Topeka.

The fire broke out Sunday in a garage north of Topeka. The Kansas State Fire Marshal’s Office identified the victims as 56-year-old Phil Lee, who died at the scene, and 83-year-old Patricia Lee, who died later Sunday at a hospital.

Foul play is not suspected. Fire crews contained the blaze to the garage of the home.

COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) – A Missouri man is now being accused of possessing child pornography after his arrest last month on allegations he was taking photographs of another person in a library bathroom stall.

The Columbia Daily Tribune reports that police arrested 21-year-old Jacob Vanderlinde Thursday on a charge of possession of child pornography.

The Boone County Sheriff’s Department Cyber Crimes Task Force says investigators found evidence of child pornography on Vanderlinde’s phone after his March 12 arrest in the incident at the University of Missouri’s Ellis Library. Vanderlinde is not a student at the university.

The task force says investigators also seized several pieces of evidence while searching Vanderlinde’s home.

Vanderlinde is being held on $50,000 bond. Online jail records don’t list an attorney for him.

TOPEKA—Total tax receipts so far this fiscal year total $4.8 billion, which is $673.61 million or 16.32 percent above last year at this time and $314.83 million above estimates for the year, according to a media release with the Kansas Department of Revenue.

Income tax collections for the fiscal year are $603.95 million above last year and $325.73 million above current expectations.

“Total tax receipts remain strong and position the state well to meet fiscal year end consensus revenue estimates,” said Secretary Sam Williams. “The growth in receipts is primarily a function of state and federal tax policy changes. We won’t be able to distinguish any real economic growth until after the April 17^th filing deadline.”

March tax receipts came in $60.91 million over last March and $39.47 million above current expectations. Individual income tax collections in March were $77.88 million above last year. Sales tax receipts are up for the year by $38.36 million over last year.

FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) – A North Texas company has recalled nearly 4 tons (3.63 metric tons) of raw beef wrongly produced and packaged without federal inspection.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture says the recall involves PFP Enterprises, operating as Texas Meat Packers of Fort Worth.

The recall involves 7,146 pounds (3,241 kilograms) of various-weight beef for tacos and fajitas produced March 23 and March 24. The lack of inspection was discovered Friday.

The USDA had no confirmed reports of anyone getting sick. The products should be thrown away or returned to the point of purchase.

The recalled items have “EST. 34715” inside the USDA mark and were shipped to Missouri, Alabama, Arkansas, Indiana, Louisiana, Mississippi,  Oklahoma, Texas and Wisconsin. The case codes are 1470, 36989, 567248261 or 567248253.  See more labels here.

Consumers can contact Patterson Foods at 817-546-3561.

BEIJING (AP) — China raised import duties on a $3 billion list of U.S. pork, fruit and other products Monday in an escalating tariff dispute with President Donald Trump that companies worry might depress global commerce.

The Finance Ministry said it was responding to a U.S. tariff hike on steel and aluminum that took effect March 23. But a bigger clash looms over Trump’s approval of possible higher duties on nearly $50 billion of Chinese goods in a separate argument over technology policy.

The tariff spat is one aspect of wide-ranging tensions between Washington and Beijing over China’s multibillion-dollar trade surplus with the United States and its policies on technology, industry development and access to its state-dominated economy.

Forecasters say the immediate impact should be limited, but investors worry the global recovery might be set back if it prompts other governments to raise import barriers. Those fears temporarily depressed financial markets, though stocks have recovered some of their losses.

On Monday, stock market indexes in Tokyo and Shanghai were up 0.5 percent at midmorning.

Beijing faces complaints by Washington, the European Union and other trading partners that it hampers market access despite its free-trading pledges and is flooding global markets with improperly low-priced steel and aluminum. But the EU, Japan and other governments criticized Trump’s unilateral move as disruptive.

The United States buys little Chinese steel and aluminum following earlier tariff hikes to offset what Washington says is improper subsidies. Still, economists expected Beijing to respond to avoid looking weak in a high-profile dispute.

Effective Monday, Beijing raised tariffs on pork, aluminum scrap and some other products by 25 percent, the Finance Ministry said. A 15 percent tariff was imposed on apples, almonds and some other goods.

The tariff hike has “has seriously damaged our interests,” said a Finance Ministry statement.

“Our country advocates and supports the multilateral trading system,” said the statement. China’s tariff increase “is a proper measure adopted by our country using World Trade Organization rules to protect our interests.”

The White House didn’t respond to a message from The Associated Press on Sunday seeking comment.

China’s government said earlier its imports of those goods last year totaled $3 billion.

The latest Chinese move targets farm areas, many of which voted for Trump in the 2016 presidential election.

U.S. farmers sent nearly $20 billion of goods to China in 2017. The American pork industry sent $1.1 billion in products, making China the No. 3 market for U.S. pork.

“American politicians better realize sooner rather than later that China would never submit if the U.S. launched a trade war,” said the Global Times, a newspaper published by the ruling Communist Party.

Washington granted EU, South Korea and some other exporters, but not ally Japan, exemptions to the steel and aluminum tariffs on March 22. European governments had threatened to retaliate by raising duties on American bourbon, peanut butter and other goods.

Beijing has yet to say how it might respond to Trump’s March 22 order approving possible tariff hikes in response to complaints China steals or pressures foreign companies to hand over technology.

Trump ordered U.S. trade officials to bring a WTO case challenging Chinese technology licensing. It proposed 25 percent tariffs on Chinese products including aerospace, communications technology and machinery and said Washington will step up restrictions on Chinese investment in key U.S. technology sectors.

Trump administration officials have identified as potential targets 1,300 product lines worth about $48 billion. That list will then be open to a 30-day comment period for businesses.

Beijing reported a trade surplus of $275.8 billion with the United States last year, or two-thirds of its global total. Washington reports different figures that put the gap at a record $375.2 billion.

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SHAWNEE COUNTY — A Sunday morning fire did considerable damage to a Kansas home.

Just before noon Sunday, Fire crews responded to a fire located at a home in the 1000 Block SW Woodward Avenue in Topeka Kansas, according to a media release.

Crews found the two-story wood framed residential structure with smoke showing from the second story.

Firefighters began an offensive fire attack, keeping it confined to the structure of fire origin. Five occupants were out of the structure when firefighters arrived. Investigators determined the fire cause to be accidental, associated with a juvenile playing with a lighter.

Estimated dollar loss $10,000 structural loss and $2,000.00 contents loss.     No working smoke detectors were located within the structure, according to the fire investigators.

MAPLEWOOD, Mo. (AP) – A former Missouri lawmaker accused of pulling a gun on a motorist during a road-rage incident has gotten probation.

Russell Gunn, 69, will serve two years’ probation after pleading guilty in February to a reduced charge of third-degree assault.

Gunn is a Democrat from Northwoods who served eight years in the Missouri House, leaving in 2000.

Prosecutors say the incident began Feb. 23, 2016, when a pickup truck merged in front of Gunn’s BMW. Gunn moved back in front of the pickup and allegedly slammed his brakes twice, causing collisions.

Police say Gunn stopped, grabbed a handgun and walked to the truck, then hit the pickup driver in the head with the gun, which discharged and sent a bullet through the pickup’s roof.